New websites of interest

One or two new websites of interest now added off the right-hand sidebar. One link points to the development of Cameroon from 1901 out of German colonial Kamerun, while the other links to the results of Cameroonian elections, both presidential and parliamentary, since 1960.

 

Also now up are the results of Cameroon's latest National Assembly elections held on July 22, 2007. Click here to see the results. Just to confirm what you knew already, Future for Africa is not responsible for the content or use of external sites.

 

Thanks and all the best,

 

Paul Stevenson

Chair and Treasurer

Gorilla warfare

Today I was pleased to read that four gorillas who have been at the centre of a five year international dispute will be returned to their native Cameroon, from Pretoria Zoo in South Africa. 

It is understood that the gorillas were captured as infants, as part of the bushmeat trade.  Whilst adult gorillas are often killed for their meat, the infants are then sold.  The infants were illegally smuggled to Taiping Zoo in Malaysia, via South Africa in 2002, where they gained the name the 'Taiping Four.'

 

Once the Malaysian government discovered the gorillas had been shipped into the country illegally they were sent back to South Africa and have been kept at Pretoria Zoo since 2004.

 

The South African government's decision to return the four gorillas to Cameroon has been the result of a long campaign by animal welfare activists.  The gorillas are due to be returned on 28^th November and will be sent to Cameroon's Limbe Wildlife Center Sanctuary.

 

Experts believe that there are fewer than 100,000 gorillas remaining in the wild in West Africa and the bushmeat trade is threatening gorillas in Cameroon in particular.

 

Ruth Timson

Press Officer and Secretary